{"id":22973,"date":"2005-09-19T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T06:45:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T06:45:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T06:45:04","slug":"watch_for_9_11_type_victims_fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2005\/09\/19\/watch_for_9_11_type_victims_fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch for 9\/11-Type Victims Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><BR\/>RUSH: Sam in Dayton, Ohio, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Family dittos, Rush. I had a question. In light of the New Orleans standards of giving, I was wondering how many more disasters can the United States endure and their aid and comfort to the victims down there?<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Let me ask you the same question: How many more do <emphasize>you <\/emphasize>think we can afford?<\/line><BR\/> <\/line><BR\/>CALLER: I\u2019m hearing in the press, of course, all the mayors of big cities reevaluating their disaster plans, and it\u2019s quite daunting what the potentials are. <\/line><BR\/> RUSH: You know what I\u2019m surprised I haven\u2019t heard yet? And I\u2019m going to make a prediction. I\u2019m going to make a prediction that we will soon hear it. Look it, I have not been in full attention mode over the weekend because of my debilitating illness. I\u2019m fighting through it to be here today for you, but I must confess, I didn\u2019t want to feel any worse over the weekend watching the news. So this may have already happened. I\u2019ll ask you, Sam. Has anybody heard of anybody saying something along the lines of this: &#8220;Well, you know, the average benefit to the victims\u2019 families in the World Trade Center was $1.9 million, and in that light, the victims of New Orleans really aren\u2019t getting very much at all.&#8221; Has anybody heard that said yet? Have you heard that, Sam?<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: No, I have not.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Well, keep your ears open, pal, because it isn\u2019t going to be long. It\u2019s not going to be long before somebody says it. It\u2019s going to be the media. It\u2019s going to be an activist. It\u2019s going to be somebody, after some time goes by, who says, &#8220;Wait a minute! Two-hundred? It\u2019s a lot of money, but how much per capita is it? It\u2019s still far less than what the families of the World Trade Center,&#8221; and then they\u2019re going to say, &#8220;Yeah, most of them were white in the World Trade Center. Bush is pulling a fast one here. Bush couldn\u2019t <emphasize>wait <\/emphasize>to throw millions at the victims\u2019 families at 9\/11, but look at what New Orleans victims are getting. It\u2019s nothing in comparison.&#8221; Mark my words. I make the prediction on September 19th at 1:41:30 in the afternoon, and we\u2019ll keep a sharp eye on this. <\/line><\/p>\n<p>As to the answer to the question, folks, maybe it is the fact that I am delirious with the fever here, but when you ask me, &#8220;Can we afford to rebuild?&#8221; Yes! We\u2019re America! We can afford to do anything! We\u2019re the United States of America, and we\u2019re going to do what\u2019s necessary. If it\u2019s disaster here or disaster anywhere, yes! We\u2019re going to do it. We can afford it. We can print money, for crying out loud! We\u2019re the United States government. We can print money. Yes, we\u2019re going to do it. You know, it\u2019s time to get a grip here, folks. It\u2019s time to get a grip. It\u2019s one thing to talking about spending restraint during normal times, we know how hard that is. You think there\u2019s going to be spending restraint which politicians have a chance to earn gold stars in a disaster aftermath? Does anybody really think that the politicians that come up and start talking about budget cuts so that we don\u2019t spend as much on the recovery is going to get anywhere? The politicians that are talking about budget cuts &#8212; and, by the way, they\u2019re out there, and they\u2019re good.<\/p>\n<p><BR\/>They\u2019re following <a href=\"\/\/\/home\/daily\/site_091905\/content\/limbaugh_plan.html\">The Limbaugh Plan<\/a>, so that this makes some fiscal sense. There\u2019s no reason to have to raise taxes to do this. When you look at all the reports of the fraud that exists in the funding that\u2019s gone on in New Orleans in the last 50 years, you know there\u2019s fraud and waste in <emphasize>every line<\/emphasize> of the federal budget. In<emphasize> every line<\/emphasize> of the federal government there is waste and there is fraud. We know it. Intellectually we know it. You and I, the citizens of this country, we know it. What we don\u2019t know is that the people who spend it will admit it and then go get it. You know, I don\u2019t think people stop to think what the federal budget is. Is it over two trillion now? It\u2019s $2.6 trillion! Folks, do you have any idea how much money that is? For the idea to be that there\u2019s no fat in this budget, and that there\u2019s no waste, and that there\u2019s no fraud. We know just from looking back for ten years to Louisiana how much fraud and waste there has been in that little budget alone. We know how much fraud and waste there\u2019s been in the redundant programs, we know the food stamp program, for crying out loud, advertises at the end of every budget year because they don\u2019t have enough takers and they have to advertise for more food stamp takers to make sure their budget isn\u2019t cut next year. We know damn well that there\u2019s money all over this country that is being spent on things that have no intention of it being spent. It\u2019s fraud; it\u2019s waste. Of course we can afford it, $2.6 trillion, for crying out loud, <emphasize>does anybody have any idea how much money that is?<\/emphasize> No! Nobody can possibly imagine it. That\u2019s why you don\u2019t know. We all just assumed that\u2019s what it takes to run the country. <\/line><BR\/> It always amazes me: every budget year, Democrats whine and moan about budget cuts. <emphasize>There aren\u2019t ever any budget cuts! <\/emphasize> Zilch, zero, nada. No budget cuts! Two years ago the budget was $1.9 trillion. It\u2019s today $2.6 trillion. Simple addition says that that\u2019s $300 billion less, that another trillion has been spent just in the last two years, and yet everybody runs around talks about all these &#8220;cuts&#8221; that have taken place. <emphasize>There are no cuts. There never are any cuts.<\/emphasize> (sigh) To the extent that there are &#8220;cuts,&#8221; it\u2019s reductions in the rate of growth. We don\u2019t spend as much as was budgeted. We always spend more. I don\u2019t care what it is. We\u2019re spending more on sea turtle research. It\u2019s asinine, these kinds of things. We\u2019re spending money on bridges to nowhere in Alaska. (Sorry, Alaska, I know it\u2019s a sensitive subject. I got e-mails when I mentioned it last week.) But bottom line is: <emphasize>we can afford it. <\/emphasize>Don\u2019t anybody tell me we can\u2019t afford it from a host of perspectives. We are the United States, and if we have to we will print the money to afford it. I\u2019m not saying that\u2019s a good idea, but we will afford it. It will be paid for. This is why if we\u2019re going to get a handle on any of this. This is a golden opportunity to demonstrate how money can be wisely, well spent for the first time in 60 years, in this type of a disaster rebuilding effort. I continue to see it as an opportunity, but I\u2019m not part of the doom-and-gloom crowd that says, &#8220;Oh, if another disaster happens, can we afford it? If there\u2019s another terrorist attack, can we afford it.&#8221; We will afford it. This is not Zimbabwe. This is not Saudi Arabia. This is not whatever country you want to mention. We will afford it. We will spend it. It\u2019s just a fact of life. That\u2019s our history. We will rebuild our country. We will do what\u2019s necessary to get it done. But in this instance, we have a golden opportunity here to demonstrate how it can be done in a way that takes people off the federal assistance rolls. It\u2019s not going to be easy and I don\u2019t mean to paint a picture of a panacea, but the opportunity exists.<\/line><BR\/>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n<paragraph\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Sam in Dayton, Ohio, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Family dittos, Rush. I had a question. 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